Albert Sack

Can electricity conjure spirits from beyond? Maybe not, but in the Victorian period, conjurers like Émile Voisin used electricity to produce illusions which passed for ghostly messages to their captivated audiences. This contraption is Voisin’s “Spirit Bell,” which employed a magic trick to ring in response to audience members’ questions.

Émile Voisin, Spirit bell, Brass, glass, ivory, metal, wood, and plastic, c. 1870, Collection of John Gaughan, Los Angeles,

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Boston Globe will be featuring a podcast on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist.

Vincent Van Gogh: Painted With Words Drama- documentary with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role as Van Gogh. The film won a Rockie for Best Arts Documentary at the Banff World Media Festival in…

Masterful, opulent and at times playful—“Casanova’s Europe: Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century” combines more than 250 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, decorative arts, furniture, costumes and musical instruments in an immersive display of visual riches.

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Pictured: "The Charlatan" (1756), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.

New York's Spring Art Auctions Have Seen Some Yawns And Some Records Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses in New York have been holding their spring auctions and such well-known names as Monet have set records. There have also been surprises.

Landmark case in New York for N**i-looted artworks.

New York judge awards N**i-looted artworks to Holocaust victim's heirs Art experts view the case as a key test of a US law designed to ease the recovery of such stolen works.

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Judge: New York’s Met Can Keep Picasso Sold During N**i Flight A US judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking the return by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan of...